Pete,
Serious question, why the secrecy? I agree that name calling is not the right thing to do (and have never resorted to it) but if there has been some progress in attitudes or thinking why can't it be shared? To most of us looking on there has been no progress.
Spot on, but there's zero chance of CWR wanting to clarify it - it doesn't fit their narrative. They're quite happy to have callers spouting such nonsense without correction or challenge.
Numerous candidates. I could throw in Yakubu, Darius Henderson, Andre Wright, Dan Agyei, Peter Ramage, Stephen Hunt and Josh Barrett, all in the last 5 years. The stuff of nightmares. There are probably many more who are best forgotten.
So the 3 worst players in our 137 year history were all in the last 5 years? That's an unlikely occurrence. The reality is that the three you name were way better than some of the dross we've had (even in the last 5 years if that's when history starts). All had their good moments in skyblue.
Irritated by the phone-in after the game; most of the callers claimed to have been supporters since God was a boy (as if that gives them greater relevance) but none of them were going to the games at SA. They might have an "interest" in CCFC, they might be "fans", but they are clearly not...
Their best "flair" player, Curtis, didn't show anything last night, but maybe we just dealt with him well. He was a nightmare down at Fratton Park. It's about doing what you have to do to get out of this league, and Pompey are doing pretty well with their style (as were Wycombe until recently...
Guy near me on Saturday mouthing off (loudly) that Baka was a piece of shit and the worst player he'd ever seen in a City shirt. And after he'd given us the lead after 2 minutes. Unbelievable.
Seriously? Do you think Robins wouldn't notice if Sam was taking it easy? Do you think that Robins would find that acceptable? More likely the natural fluctuations in form of a 19 year old in his first full season of league football. His performances recently haven't been poor, he just hasn't...
It's more about football philosophy than budget, Accrington in their promotion season were another example, small budget but played good tidy football. My assumption was that you couldn't have seen the Rochdale game if you thought they played like Pompey - logical rather than lazy. But if you...
Agreed - O'hare looked out on his feet and was the obvious candidate to come off, whilst Allen was still going strong. But then what do we know? But I would still have brought Pask on to replace him for the last 5 minutes to handle the aerial assault.
If you watched the Rochdale game at SA (which I assume you didn't) you will know that they attempted to play the ball from the back (on the ground) more than any other team we've seen this season, very similar to us but not as good at it. Lazy stereotype.
Weaker, stronger - difficult to say. Personally I think it is stronger due to the larger number of decent (but not outstanding) teams in the top half. Any of the top 6 could conceivably be champions, and any of them could conceivably miss out on playoffs. Any team from 11th upwards (Burton) will...
Yes, could be true. Our postman said somebody in town told him the same, and he thinks it was somebody in the pub told the man in town. And it was Jim the gateman's dog that told the man in the pub.
Or, as you say, it might just be bollocks.
I think that will be a continuing problem with the better teams targetting Mason, especially if their wide players have height (it's almost the same as in the Kelly-Evans days, but not quite as extreme). When you've got Dabo doing superman impressions on the other side it's obvious they will see...
Also notable from Tuesday, Marosi finally got the message at halftime that pinging the ball at Mason's head was not working and thus he started going longer. One of his standard out-balls usually is to McCallum's head, which McCallum wins/controls more often than not. Just shows how using...